voyager

English

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
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Noun

voyager (plural voyagers)

  1. A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.
    • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎:
      This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers.

Synonyms

Translations
traveller — see traveller

French

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vwa.ja.ʒe/
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Verb

voyager

  1. to travel, to voyage
    • 1986, Desireless (lyrics and music), “Voyage, Voyage”, in François:
      Voyage, voyage / Plus loin que la nuit et le jour (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / Dans l’espace inouï de l’amour
      Voyage, voyage / Further than the night and the day (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / In the unheard-of space of love

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voyage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of voyager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple voyager
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple voyageant
/vwa.ja.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle voyagé
/vwa.ja.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyages
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyageons
/vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/		 voyagez
/vwa.ja.ʒe/		 voyagent
/vwa.jaʒ/
imperfect voyageais
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/		 voyageais
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/		 voyageait
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/		 voyagions
/vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/		 voyagiez
/vwa.ja.ʒje/		 voyageaient
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/
past historic2 voyageai
/vwa.ja.ʒe/		 voyageas
/vwa.ja.ʒa/		 voyagea
/vwa.ja.ʒa/		 voyageâmes
/vwa.ja.ʒam/		 voyageâtes
/vwa.ja.ʒat/		 voyagèrent
/vwa.ja.ʒɛʁ/
future voyagerai
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/		 voyageras
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/		 voyagera
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/		 voyagerons
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 voyagerez
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/		 voyageront
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional voyagerais
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/		 voyagerais
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/		 voyagerait
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/		 voyagerions
/vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 voyageriez
/vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁje/		 voyageraient
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyages
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/		 voyagions
/vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/		 voyagiez
/vwa.ja.ʒje/		 voyagent
/vwa.jaʒ/
imperfect2 voyageasse
/vwa.ja.ʒas/		 voyageasses
/vwa.ja.ʒas/		 voyageât
/vwa.ja.ʒa/		 voyageassions
/vwa.ja.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 voyageassiez
/vwa.ja.ʒa.sje/		 voyageassent
/vwa.ja.ʒas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/		 — voyageons
/vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/		 voyagez
/vwa.ja.ʒe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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